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November, 2007 Number 5

Feb 16,2008 Pine Butte Ranch Bull Sale, Kamloops
April 12/08 Vanderhoof Bull Sale, Vanderhoof
April 17/18/08 Williams Lake Bull Show & Sale, Williams Lake

It looks like we have some good news on the opening of the border. Barring any unforeseen events it is supposed to open up on Nov 19/07 for animals born after March 1, 1999. Expect long delays as the officials make certain RCALF do not have any complaints and check to see that no older animals are getting across.

The number of active BC Juniors is on the rise. The BCJHA Annual meeting was held on September 29 at the Abbotsford Fairgrounds. There was a good turnout of Junior members and everyone is looking forward to Bonanza in Medicine Hat next year. A new executive was elected and is as follows.

President - Morgan Godfrey
Vic President - Raymond Turney
Treasurer - Spencer Krause
Secretary - Jodi Sandhoff
National Delegates - Morgan Godfrey & Raymond Turney
Adult Advisor - Everett Godfrey

The BCJHA plans to hold a meeting and field day next May to plan and organize for Bonanza. We are working on holding an educational clinic with the date yet to be decided. The BC juniors look forward to a year full of smiles, laughs and learning in 2008. Just a reminder to all the Junior members to watch for your membership renewals coming out this month with the Junior Hereford Influence newsletter.

The BCJHA would also like to thank everyone who supports and sponsors the Junior Hereford program; it would not be possible without you. Morgan Godfrey

Held Sept 29/2007 at Central Valley Exhibition Grounds, Abbotsford

Auctioneer Don Raffan
26 head $45,875
Sale average $1,764

Top seller PGG Miles Platinum 4T sired by Square D Milestone ET 44P selling at $8,000 to Kootenay Polled Herefords, Castlegar and consigned by Platinum Genetics Group of Surrey.

Selling at $6,100 to Tom Charlton, Jim Dales and Carol Sandoff , Aldergrove was Thunder 29F Sapphire 1S, sired by CS Boomer 29F and consigned by Thunder Ridge Farms, Abbotsford.

Selling at $3,400 to Peter Reimer of Abbotsford was a 3-D-L Polled Hereford consignment from Daryl & Linda Kirton of Abbotsford. .3-D-L Sally 9SW was sired by 3-D-L Montana ET 4M.

$3,100 was the selling price of the Triple Court Farm, Aldergrove consignment TCF Kahlua Bullet Ldy 3S, sired by WHH MB Infiniti 6P and selling to Christian Chartier Surrey.

Sharden Polled Herefords of Williams Lake sold Sharden Supergirl 5S sired by 3-D-L Montana ET 4M to Woodely Range Herefords for $2,000.



High selling heifer consigned by Platinum Genetics and purchased by Kootenay Polled Herefords

Our Annual General meeting at Salmon Arm was a good event and Libby Laycraft, a consultant with CHA whose speciality is genetics, Karin Schmid, the Junior co-ordinator and “girl Friday” at CHA, along with our president Vic Oulton from Nova Scotia were in attendance. The reason I say “girl Friday” for Karin is that she now has had an extra load put on her shoulders due to the resignation of Heather Hartman who has moved on to bigger and better things. At this time we are pleased to report that Gordon Stephenson has completed his treatment for his cancer and is reportedly doing well. We all wish Gordon a speedy recovery so he can get back to guiding the Canadian Hereford Association on the road to recovery as well.

The meeting was informal and a lot of information was put forward by Libby, Don Richardson in his CHA report and by the other committee reports. Murray Gore announced that due to the work load of his job promotion he would be stepping down as president and would not be seeking re-election. Murray automatically moves into the past president position. The BCHA would like to thank Murray for his hard work during his time on the Board of Directors. Glen Wicklund has been past president and has now relocated to Saskatchewan having sold all this property at Prince George. We have lost two hard working individuals who are Hereford boosters and we are indebted to them for their time spent working for us.

Fortunately we have been able to replace Murray and Glen with two capable people who I know will work hard for the breed. Darlene Borrow from Sharden Polled Herefords at Williams Lake and Dena Finlay of Finlay Farm, Armstrong have agreed to sit as Directors. They will join Daryl Kirton, 3-D-L Farm of Abbotsford, who accepted president position for to a two year term; Ross Springford, Springford Farm, Nanoose Bay who was returned to the vice president position; Don Richardson, our CHA Director; David Atkinson, Princeton; Ed Conroy, Castlegar; Everett Godfrey, Mission; Bob Gowans, Kamloops ; Harvey Halvorson, Brackendale; Vic Redekop, Aldergrove; Doug Simons, Princeton and Maureen Ziemer, Lumby.

One of the agenda items was Bonanza 2009 and if we felt BC could do it at that time or not. Some felt that we lacked enough active Junior members and that we would be hard pressed to do a sufficient job. Cost of renting a facility was another major concern. The matter was left for investigation and since we have some very good members who are loyal to the breed and to the Junior movement it has now been decided that Princeton will be the site for the event with the venue being the Copper Creek Ranch sale barn. Ron & Sharon Stevenson and Family have been platinum sponsors of Bonanza and they, along with Doug & Tania Simons, ranch managers have offered their excellent facility and the wheels are now in motion to host Bonanza and the CHA AGM at Princeton, BC in 2009. The date has not yet been set, but we know for certain that it will not clash with any major 4-H weekend.

One of my concerns for the past few years if the number of breeders we are losing due to the increase in membership. The increase to $150 for membership was necessary for the reason that we needed dollars to get the National Marketing Manager position into being. It is a good program, but we also need members and I can see that anyone with less than ten cows does not want to pay $150 for membership. In my report at the AGM I suggested we visit this problem and implement a graduated fee schedule. No one gave it a lot of thought I suppose as nothing came of it. I am going to ask the membership what they think. Could we have a graduated scale for example ten cows registered or less would be $50 - WITH NO VOTING PRIVILEGES - possibly call it an Associate membership but able to register calves. $25 to go to CHA and $25 to the NMMP program. The provinces would get their share from the registrations of those members. Possibly twenty cows registered or less could have a different fee as well. We have lost a lot of members due to the fee increase and while some may be due to families amalgamating their memberships I have been told by several who are no longer members that they felt it was too much to pay for a few cows when membership in the Angus Association is $50. Something for you to think about and I would like to hear any “pros or cons” on this subject.

From my perspective we had a great Hereford weekend in Salmon Arm and a lot of good cattle were shown. Blaine Brost from Medicine Hat did the judging and he brought his two young daughters with him to see BC. It must be very special in the minds of two young girls who are not yet into their “terrible teens” to come with Dad to a cattle show in BC. I felt Blaine selected good useful cattle that were not too large for today’s standards. We need to bring the size of our cattle down to what I have been harping about for years, a good strong “upper middle of the road” kind of animal. If you are going by frame score that is a weak seven.

Blaine Brost selected CCR 57G Stamina ET 199S as his grand champion bull of the show. You will recall that Stamina sold for $36,000 for a one third semen interest to the Stamina Group syndicate of breeders in the 2006 Copper Creek production sale.. He had been champion at Salmon Arm and other shows before the sale and still looks every bit like a champion. Rumour has it that Copper Creek are taking him to Agribition 2007 and we all wish them much success there.

Standing in the reserve grand champion spot was the bull calf champion from Kootenay Polled Herefords of Surrey and Castlegar. This calf was called Kootenay 44P Tyson 30T. The reserve bull calf champion was the entry CCR 84R Tasman 71T from Copper Creek Ranch.

The reserve junior champion was Dogwood 4M Journeyman 25S entered by Springford Farm, Colin & Ross Springford of Nanoose Bay. The Senior champion was a sturdy individual shown by 3-D-L Farm and Murphy Ridge Farm of Abbotsford and Golden Oaks Herefords called Golden Oak 56M Predator 1R. A strong group of bulls were led into the ring for the best pair of bull class sponsored by BC Livestock. Copper Creek Ranch took first place , Echo Valley Farm, Fred & Maureen Ziemer, of Lumby were second, Finlay Farm of Armstrong placed third, Wayne Frocklage of Aldergrove was fourth with South Alder Farm of Aldergrove placing fifth.

CCR 57G Stamina

The female classes were uniform and the classes strong from top to bottom. In the senior female classes Copper Creek Ranch came out on top to claim senior champion with Tlell 8N Yellow Cedar 1R , while Echo Valley Farm showed Echo Valley 92K Ramona 54R to the reserve senior champion spot.

In the heifer calf classes 23 good quality calves competed for the calf championship with Murphy Ridge Tracy 6T entered by Murphy Ridge Farm, Henry & Velma Braun of Abbotsford coming to the top to claim the ribbon, with Echo Valley Farm’s Echo Valley 87 Trinity 4T taking the reserve spot.

In the yearling females class the junior champion ribbon went to 3-D-L Farm and Murphy Ridge Farm on Golden Oak Catalina ET 2S. South Alder Farm of Aldergrove showed their heifer, Highmark Neila25S to the reserve junior champion spot. These two went on to become the grand champion and reserve grand champion females of the show.

Golden Oak Catalina ET 2S

In the best pair of females Echo Valley Farm took first with Copper Creek second and Springford Farm third..

Breeders herd saw Copper Creek Ranch in first, Echo Valley farm second and Springford Farm took third. In the progeny of dam class Echo Valley Farm took first, Triple Court Farm, Aldergrove second and Platinum Genetics of Surrey took third.

The Hereford Challenge 2007 class saw four cows with calves at foot returning for their third year at the show, coming first as calves, then yearlings and then back for the prize money as two year olds with calf at foot. In this class, one where they accumulate points over the three years of competition, South Alder Farm, the Krause Family of Aldergrove and Echo Valley Farm, Fred & Maureen Ziemer of Lumby, tied for first place money. Coming in next was Jim & Leona Wright of Triple Court Farm at Aldergrove and then Tom Charlton of Kensington Prairie Farm. Aldergrove.

On Sunday the bull calf jackpot show, sponsored by North Bluff Farm , Vic & Judy Redekop of Aldergrove and AMW Polled Herefords, Alf & Marianne Wiebe of Abbotsford was held with 13 bull calves competing for the prize money. Judging this was a panel of three judges, Dean Trenholm of Tappan, Dave Batemen of Salmon Arm and Doug Fossen of Rock. After the calculations were completed first place money went to Echo Valley Farm on Echo Valley 87J Timber 8T, second to Kootenay Polled Herefords who showed Kootenay 44P Tyson 30T, third prize went to Echo Valley Farm with Echo Valley 87J Touchdown 5T, fourth to Platinum Genetics for PGG 44P Maximus ET 2T and tied for fifth spot was Tom Charlton, Kensington Prairie Farm with KPR 6R Thorson 5T and Platinum Genetics of Surrey who showed PGG 44P Maximus ET 3T.

The sponsors announced that next year they would be offering a bigger prize money.

The premier breed banner, sponsored by Sunnymont Herefords, Russ & Cathy Bartman, Salmon Arm and premier exhibitor banner, sponsored by Triple Court Farm, Aldergrove were both garnered by Copper Creek Ranch, owned by the Stevenson Family of Princeton.

This show was judged by Keith Altwasser of Lumby. The grand and senior champion female at this show came from a cow/calf pair LC1 157K Ribstone Girl 81N and her calf shown by Triple Court Farm, Jim & Leona Wright of Aldergrove. The reserve grand champion had been named junior champion and was the entry of the Thor Spencer Family of Thunder Ridge Polled Herefords at Abbotsford called Thunder 28M Sabrina ET

The reserve senior champion came from Kensington Prairie Farm of Aldergrove and was KMD 113N Replica Lady 4R. The reserve junior champion was Highmark Neila 25S from the Harvey Krause Family South Alder Farms at Aldergrove. This outstanding female had previously been named the top 4-H heifer of the show. As a note of interest this same good heifer went on to be the Best Hereford Heifer at the PNE for Jordan Krause.